by the 1950s, increasing numbers of non—indigenous australians were flocking to ayers rock. the spirits of the primitive men who've made the rock, for untold ages, the focal point of their legends and ceremony. and the anangu people were displaced. they mightn‘t look it, but they're nearly civilised. newsreel: then to climb the rock itself. no easy task, as the side steepens to an angle of 60 degrees, and the surface is flaky and treacherous. the big climb became the white australian's sacred duty. it's almost like a rite of passage. they have heard from their parents and often their parents' parents that you have to come out here and climb. and australians like to conquer things, and i think that's probably one of the reasons, but it's notjust australians — we get a lot of europeans, a lot of people from asia particularly, that do want to climb. many of the climbers i meet at the base of the rock have come to do it before it closes. it's always been my dream, and ifinally made it. yeah, i like to do challenges. i'll see how far we get in the morning. have you guys heard tha

look at plans to end climbing at one of australia's great natural wonders — uluru —also known as ayers rockhave been convicted of murdering five people in a shop explosion in leicester. aram kurd, arkan ali and hawkar hassanwere also found and hawkar hassan were also found guilty of conspiracy to commit insurance fraud. the arson attack happened in february this year and was caused by petrol, demolishing a supermarket and two story flat above. mary ragoobar died together with her teenage sons shane and sean along with shane's girlfriend leah reek and arkan ali's partner, vi ktorija ijevleva. 0ur correpondent kathryn stanczyszyn is at leicester crown court and has been following the case. bring us up—to—date with all the details. the families of both leah reek and the ragoobar family were in court today. the court heard this was a pure case of greed. they had carried out this insurance fraud to get thousands of pounds of money. the court heard it was a simple case of greed without any kind of regard for the lives lost. just a warning. my for the lives lost. just a warning. my report containe

and for someone like ayers who is supposed to be an up and coming rock star in the republican party,o not take the biggest job of them all, does say a lot about what some people -- how some people view this administration. you are talking about a white house who cannot be managed. trump cannot be managed. and he undermines his people who work for him and throws them under the bus and goes at it alone so many times. you are a tweet away from being fired. that's the white house they're dealing with. >> what do you expect in terms of the posture, the approach this administration, this white house takes toward these investigations in these coming months from the democrats in congress and from the special counsel and southern district of new york as well. >> well, i think what concerns me the most, steve is the departure of john kelly. essentially the departure of one of the last remaining remnants of adult supervision. when you think about what the approach is going to be to these incoming --slaught of investigative threat. the president is not going to be able to restrain himself. he's

ayers out of the running. >>> the president trump calls his former secretary of state dumb as a rock after rex tiller said the president regularly attempted to do things that would violate the law. ♪ >>> it is monday december 10th. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian and louis burgdorf. we begin with the recent court filings by the special counsel's office. they're now raising new questions about the trump ga campaign and russia as the president denies any wrongdoing. here some of the key take-aways. in those documents filed on friday, prosecutors say trump directed illegal hush money payments to two women with whom he had alleged sexual relationships before running for president. the filings allege that trump was involved in discussions about a trump property in moscow during the presidential campaign. prosecutors also said an unnamed russian offered michael cohen political synergy between russia and the trump campaign back in november of 2015. the documents claim cohen was in contact with people connected to the white house and circulated his response to congressional inquiries. prosecutors als

rock and i couldn't get rid of him fast enough. would anybody in their right mind take a job with these people? >> nick ayers is about to. >> reporter: clearly, yes. >> everyone thinks they can be the one who can survive this wave. >> survive or tame trump? >> at this point i think taming trump is difficult to do. you manage the situation. the reality here is that the one person who is not changing position is the president. so regardless of who is around him, that is not changing. the biggest issue in the white house is talking to people, the offices are still somewhat empty. as the president heads into what is going to be the biggest challenge of his presidency with democrats on the house, looking into everything with this investigation, there are not a lot of people minding the store from the communication side of things, to the legal side of things. that is the challenge for nick ayers, people who aren't necessarily -- it's not as well staffed as it may need to be for this. we'll see how he handles it. >> perfect segue to where we go next. debates in congress about the border wall and saudi arabia. this